Thank's A, you've seen a few I havent plus a couple I haven't seen for a very long time (making it unfair to judge them). It's astounding how much depth she had as an actress, even at a young age. The highlight (in my opinion) so far is "Three Colours Blue" and it's great to see that she's still going strong.

I also haven't seen some on your list
Yes, I think she was as good as an actress when she was young as she is now. Good instincts, I guess though she has improved on her technique tremendeously (see her great performance in Cach). I don't consider Three colors: blue as highly as most others, as I don't like the character too much, and the performance was at times too intimate/personal (not a performance anymore) while I felt that she held too much back in other scenes. I liked the restrained "touch" much more in "The Horseman on the roof".

I've only seen about 10 films of her's so a list of this kind from me would be rather useless. There are a few on both of your lists that are in my "to look for" list. On a completely different note, I did hear that Kino will be releasing a Michael Haneke collection later this year which will basically consist of all his films already on DVD, but in one nice little boxed set.

Kino did recently release a Michael Haneke "4-Pack" which includes The Seventh Continent, Benny's V, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance and Funny Games. Only Funny Games was available previously. I wasn't aware of an all-encompassing boxset.

Re: The English Patient, that brings back some memories, there was a part where the vehicle rolls down a sand dune and somebody weny flying off. My sons (obviously a lot younger then) found it so amusing that they rewound the tape around five or six tiimes to watch it again. I don't think I ever got to see the end of the film after that.

Yeah, I remember it quite well. It's one of those sequences that garner unintentional laughs from just about everyone. Some might say that The English Patient had a few of 'em, but I certainly won't be among them.

I felt absolutely nothing for the English Patient, and only watched it as part of my Oscar research, but I think 1996 was a weak year in general for fictional American movies. However even critically Fargo should have been the choice for best picture, but the Coen's were no match for the hype machine of Miramax and their relentless pursuit of Oscar gold. As always though, anything with Willem Dafoe is worth watching (except for maybe Speed 2).